I learned the importance of the dance costume at a very early age, as both my parents were dancers, and I can remember watching repeated costume fittings for hours from my crib near the piano in my ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Across the nation and around the world, in certain backstage sanctums, people are fretting over tutus. It’s “Nutcracker” season, when the holiday warhorse ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This gossamer ballet tutu was worn by ...

Cincinnati Ballet wardrobe supervisor Noelle Wedig-Johnston says she gets one question a lot: “How long does it take to build a tutu?” More than likely, people ask her how long it takes to make a tutu ...

CINCINNATI -- Call them the Team Fiona Tutu Squad. Wardrobe Mistress Diana Adams, second assistant to the wardrobe mistress Noelle Wedig and stitcher Jackie Andrews created a custom-made Fiona costume ...

The show can't possibly go on. Or, at least, no ballet company should be expected to woo paying audiences without its principal dancers twirling and whirling in hand-stitched tutus. And there's the ...

It’s not unusual to get a new outfit for your 50th birthday. But George Balanchine’s “Jewels” is getting 66 of them. The 1967 ballet, created by Balanchine as a plotless three-act work (inspired, so ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The magical fairytale of "Cinderella" returns to Salt Lake City, but this time dancers will grace the stage with costumes and sets from the Royal Ballet in London. "Even though it's ...